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A large soft-metal-inlaid silver incense burner
Meiji period (late 19th century), signed Shoami Katsuyoshi sen (carved by Shoami Katsuyoshi; 1832-1908), sealed Katsuyoshi
The incense burner cast in sections as a rooster perched on a drum supported on a stand, finely worked in gold, silver, shibuichi, shakudo, copper and gilt, the life-like rooster dynamically cast and chiseled, the shibuichi body of the drum resembling the wood grain with gilt details, the sides designed with a coiled dragon inlaid in gold, shakudo and copper, and applied with shakudo rivets; incised signature on base and the gilt seal on body
16 ½ in. (41.9 cm.) high
With double wood box inscribed and certified by Sato Kanzan in August 1959Provenance
Private collection, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Quoted from the lot page, © Christie's. Christie's, AN INQUIRING MIND: AMERICAN COLLECTING OF JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART, 2016-04-15, lot 73 ↗
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